Tunis — The Vocational Training and Employment Ministry underlined, on Monday, the keenness to make sure of the accuracy of all the statistics and the figures on employment before their announcement.

In a statement, the Ministry specifies that the number of job created during the first half of 2012 was provided by the National Statistics Institute and confirmed by the National Employment Agency. A figure of some 60,900 jobs cast doubt among some parties...

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